Fly-trap



(No Model.) Y J. S..SHUMATE 81; H. W. BARTELS.

FLY TRAP.

No. 556,647. Patented Mar. 1'7, 1896.

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JAMES S. SIIUMATE AND HENRY \V. BARTELS, OF IIOUOK, MISSOURI FLY-TRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,647, dated March 17, 1896.

Application filed October 2,1895. Serial No. 564,375, (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES S. SHUMATE and HENRY XV. BARTELS, of llouck, in the county of Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Fly- Trap, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to an improvement in fly-traps, and the object of the invention is to provide a trap adapted for attachment to a curtain, whereby, when the curtain is drawn or placed in position over a window, light will be admitted only through the trap, which light will attract the flies and cause them to enter said trap.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a means for regulating the amount of light to be passed through the trap.

Another object of said invention is to con struct a fiy-trap which will be exceedingly eflicient, economic, and simple, as well as durable.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, that will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a curtain applied to a window, the curtain having the improved trap attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the body of the trap, taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, looking in direction of the front; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out the invention a plate A is provided at the front of the trap, and in this plate a predetermined number of openings is made, preferably transversely of the plate, and the metal removed to form the said open ings is carried at an upward and rearward inclination to the rear of the plate, forming inclined walls 11, extending longitudinally of the openin A flange 12 in the nature of a hood is made to surround the ends and top portion of each of the openings in the plate A, the said hoodiiaugcs being secured to the rear face of the plate A, and the spaces between the inner side edges of the inclined walls 11 and the upper or horizontal portions of the hoodflanges 12 constitute contracted outlets 13, through which the flies find entrance into the body '13 of the trap.

The body B may be given any shape, but is preferably of box-like construction, and is made from woven wire or its equivalent, and when made of woven wire the edges of the box-body are suitably protected.

Lugs 14 are formed one in each side of the back upper portion of the plate A, and the box-body is preferably hinged to the said plate by passing a pint-1e 15 through the body and through the said lugs, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Similar lugs 16 are formed upon the back lower portion of the plate A, as is also shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the box-body is held to an engagement with the plate A throughout its length by passing a pin 17 or similar device through the lower portion of the body and through the lower lugs 16.

The trap is adapted to be attached to the curtain C, and this curtain is provided with an opening which is covered by the face-plate A of the trap. Thus when the curtain is at tached to a window and covers said window, light can enter the room only through the trap, and the light will attract the flies, causing them to seek the trap and enter the front openings 10, finding an entrance into the body of the trap through the contracted outlets 1 3, and as the flies are inclined to travel in an upwardly direction and the outlets are quite narrow but few of them will succeed in escaping from the trap.

In the event that too much. light enters the room through the trap, slides 18 are provided for the openings 10, suitableguideways 1.) being formed on the face-plate to receive said slides, and any one or more of the openings 10 may be thus covered. The flies may be removed by disengaging the body of the trap at its lower end from the face-plate and turning it up upon its hinges to an upper vertical or to a horizontal position.

The face-plate A may be made a permanent portion of the trap, in which event it is removed with the trap and a skeleton plate is secured to the curtain around the opening therein, and the face-plate is removably attached to the skeleton plate.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A fly-trap, the same consisting of a faceplate provided with openings, inclined walls respectively located at the rear side of said openings, and a hood-flange partially surrounding each of the said openings, the hoodflanges being located at the rear of the faceplate, and a removable body adapted to receive the flies and attached to the rear of the plate, and surrounding all of the openings therein, substantially as set forth.

2. A fiy-trap, the same consisting of. a faceplate having a series of openings therein, walls respectively extending upwardly from the lower edges of the said openings, hoodflanges surrounding the ends of the openings and the top thereof, the hood-flanges being respectively above the lips, whereby contracted outlets are formed between the said flanges and the inclined partitions, and a removable body-section adapted to receive the flies, located at the back of the face-plate and surrounding the openings therein, as and for the purpose specified.

3. A fly-trap, comprising a face-plate having a series of openings therein, upwardly and rearwardly inclined walls respectively located at the rear bottom edges of the said openings, flanges surrounding the ends and the upper edges of the openings in the faceplate, the flanges being located at the rear of the latter, whereby contracted openings are formed through which the flies must pass, of a box-body having hinged connection with the rear portion of the faceplate, and surrounding said openings, a locking device for the box-body, and slides respectively capable of closing openings in the face-plate, as and for the purpose specified.

4. A fly-trap, comprising a face-plate provided with a series of openings therein, upwardly and rearwardly inclined walls respectively located at the rear of the said openings, flanges attached to the rear of the faceplate, the fianges partially surrounding the openings and forming contracted outlets for the flies, a box-body attached to the rear of the face-plate and surrounding the said open- 5 ings, the said body being constructed of a perforate material, and a curtain attached to and surrounding the said face-plate, whereby light may enter only through the trap, as and for the purpose specified.

5. The herein-described face-plate having an opening therein, and having an upwardlyinclined wall extending from the lower edge of the opening, the face-plate also having a hood-flange extending outwardly from the upper and side edges of the opening and embracing the wall whereby contracted passages are formed, substantially as described.

6. The herein-described faceplate having an opening therein, an upwardly inclined Wall extending from the lower edge of the opening, a hood-flange extending outwardly from the top and side edges of the face-plate and embracing the wall, and a slide carried by the face-plate and on the side opposite the wall and hood-flange the slide being capable of movement to close the opening in the face-plate, substantially as described.

JAMES S. SHUMATE. HENRY XV. BARTELS.

W'itn esses O'rro F. WILLA, FRITZ C. VAs'rERLING. 

